Notice: Use of undefined constant E_DEPRECATED - assumed 'E_DEPRECATED'

[bowers01 +]

Hi,
I just upgraded from 4.16 to 4.18, i went though the change log and changed each file manually.
I now get this error at the top of the page

Notice: Use of undefined constant E_DEPRECATED - assumed 'E_DEPRECATED' in E:\wamp\www\includes\init.php on line 16

which is

	error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_WARNING & ~E_DEPRECATED);

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Also if i use the old init.php from v4.16 it works fine.
Cheers,
Nick

EDIT: If i remove & ~E_DEPRECATED from line 16 of the v4.18 init.php it works without a issue.

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by bowers01

EDIT: If i remove & ~E_DEPRECATED from line 16 of the v4.18 init.php it works without a issue.

I believe the the constant E_DEPRECATED is only for php 5.3 and up so if you are running a php version lower than that it wont be recognized. You should be fine just removing it as you did.

[bowers01 +]

Originally Posted by Lhotch

I believe the the constant E_DEPRECATED is only for php 5.3 and up so if you are running a php version lower than that it wont be recognized. You should be fine just removing it as you did.

Ah excellent thanks.
It is also in www\administration\includes\params.php on line 20

[Eric Barnes]

Yea I screwed up with this change. I was trying to bring in better 5.3 support and added this tag. Didn't notice it was for 5.3 and higher.

[bowers01 +]

Originally Posted by Eric Barnes

Yea I screwed up with this change. I was trying to bring in better 5.3 support and added this tag. Didn't notice it was for 5.3 and higher.

Hi Eric,
Is it worth upgrading the server and leave this code in or just remove the code and stay on 5.2.9?
Was there any 68c functionality improved because of 5.3?
Cheers,
Nick

[seymourjames +]

Not sure whether this is a PM Nick.

In general it is going to depend upon what your hosting provider supports and good ones are not lazy - they upgrade fairly quickly. Generally speaking it is always better to upgrade and follow what they do. For example, you would tend to develop for php5 rather than 4 as it has better support and functionality (even if php4 does run in php5 because it is backward compatible). If its no hassle I would do it. However its not a huge jump so it is not going to make too much difference either way. The issue tends to be more prominent when you get a big upgrade like from php4 to php5. Like we could not do many of the things we offer without php5.

[bowers01 +]

Originally Posted by seymourjames

Not sure whether this is a PM Nick.

haha nah it wasn't.
I am running my site on a WHM/cPanel VPS so its nice and easy for me to upgrade, might do it in the near future.
Thanks for the reply.
Nick

[Eric Barnes]

I would keep what are you are running. The only changes for 5.3 is to hide the error messages. No functional changes have been made for it.

[dragonfly7 +]

I am having the same problem and was able to remove it from the administration directory (www\administration\includes\params.php on line 20)

but cannot see the code (I purchased the designer edition) to fix this error in the includes directory (www\includes\init.php on line 16 )

How do I fix this?